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Most of us make some questionable decisions with our finances at one point or another. Whether you impulsively purchased a blender that ended up sitting in the closet collecting dust or accidentally payed a scammer for “concert tickets,” you certainly weren't the first person to make that mistake.

But unfortunately, sometimes the unwise decisions we make with our money end up having long-term effects. Redditors have been confessing some of the most expensive mistakes they’ve ever made, so we’ve gathered their most painful regrets below. Feel free to use this list as a reminder of what not to do with your money, pandas, and be sure to upvote the warning tales you think everyone should read!

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Went to an Ivy League school for nursing school. Now I have $90k of debt, literally no one cares where you went to school, my peers who went to community college or state schools are doing the exact same job and buying houses.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you don't have free education, should be vital for anyone to know which schools are worthing to pay for.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Not caring for my teeth when young.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Started smoking at 14. On and of for decades, off for over a year now, but I must have spent enough to put a down payment on a house between the cigs and associated health issues. Don't start kids, not even one!

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unpopular opinion. Not saying smoking is good or bad BUT all these calculations don't work the way you think. Reminds of this joke. There’s an old story about a guy taking a smoke break with his non-smoking colleague. “How long have you been smoking for?” the colleague asks. “Thirty years,” says the smoker. “Thirty years!” marvels the co-worker. “That costs so much money. At a pack a day, you’re spending $1,900 a year. Had you instead invested that money at an 8% return for the last 30 years, you’d have $250,000 in the bank today. That’s enough to buy a Ferrari.” The smoker looked puzzled. “Do you smoke?” he asked his co-worker. “No.” “So where is your fückin Ferrari?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do not agree, OP only made a comparison in how much money they spend on smoking. Some people do indeed save money wherever they can so they can buy a house or go on vacation or whatever they are saving money for. Others spend it along the way on other things besides smoking. The amount of money not spent on smoking stays the same - no matter what you did or did not do with it instead. So, Ferrari or not... house or not... they still did not spend 250.000 (or whatever else amount) on smoking...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I quit smoking about 5 months ago after probably 30 years off and on smoking. I'd sometimes quit for a few weeks, even a few months, a couple of times for a few years. I finally realized that I won't STAY "quit" unless I do two things: 1) quit for me and only me; quit because I want to do it for me; 2) get my head right. I used to say "Smoking is s*cide with the world's slowest bullet", and for me that's what it was: conscious self-destruction in the slowest possible way. I realized I had to get control over those impulses and that I had to WANT to be healthy, and want to take care of myself. I finally got where I'm mostly on top of it. I still get cravings sometimes, but it's just emotional now, and not physical. As long as I keep my head clear, I'll keep free. Best advice: don't ever start; not even "just one".

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a good message. I hate to know how much I've spent on word game books, fast food, Timmies coffee, candy. I want to try, instead of going ahead and paying for things I don't need, stop myself, call up the bank and have them put the amount I would've spent into my tax free savings account. (For those that don't know, it's an account you can open in Canada that has a decently high ceiling limit for savings without paying taxes on it. You just have to declare the funds in the account when you file your taxes, but you don't pay tax on it until you're past the ceiling. To put money in/take out money, you have to go to the bank or call and make a request. It's not attached to your cards, and you don't see it on your bank app. So, it's out of sight, out of mind, but not lost.)

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a myth. No, smoking is not a heatlhy choice. But you would spent that money for anything else, what you'd like over the years, and you wouldn't put in your piggy bank.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't think they're necessarily saying they would have or could have put a down payment on a house. I think they were trying to give an idea on how much money they'd spent on smoking.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My sister was diagnosed with COPD last summer. You'd think watching our mom d!e of the exact same thing would have dissuaded her from picking up the habit (she was 16; I was 12 at the time). But noooo....

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a coworker once who said she and her husband both quit smoking because they did the math, and their monthly tobacco budget was the same as the payments on a car they wanted.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For real I started at 12 as bored latchkey kid and I'm now 35 and still struggling to kick the habit....I hate it

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

45 pack years leading to emphysema. Quit 15 years ago when I couldn't smoke and still breath.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Basically every smoking friend i have admit that this was the worst decision in their life. And they also warning me every time, no matter how much life fu(ks me, never start it.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Not enrolling in my company’s retirement plan that offered 5% contribution match. Lost five years of free money.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's so USA-like specific, my european mind can't totally comprehend. I'm free to switch jobs, and that never will affect my retirement plan or my healthcare. The only thing is, people here have 1 "free" month between jobs. If you are between jobs, you have 1 month covered, than -even if you got a new one-, you have to cover the expenses. Sure, you won't let down, if something happens.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Not taking diabetes seriously cost me the vision in my right eye.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The vision in my right eye is hanging by a thread already and I’m not diabetic

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories My most recent was going to the doctor.

Went for a PAP smear. Asked 4 questions relating to my birth control and the vagina since I was seeing a gyno that day.

Received a $413 bill because the 4 questions I asked were "deemed outside the scope for the appointment". Over $100 per f*****g question.

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Buying into shallow beauty habits. I cringe at the thought of how much money I spent on hair, nails, club outfits, accessories, etc. All cause I was a vulnerable teen convinced by my society that I wasn't beautiful enough and I needed to pay to get right. I can't imagine being rich and feeling that way with the ability to go further and get surgeries....sheesh....that's like an endless bill all cause society is in the business of making people feel like they're inherently flawed...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's way worse now with influencers and people claiming to be "beauty gurus". Just a thought that ran in my head today, all those people online showing off how they live, what products they use, how they apply their make up and what they wear, have all got to be the same mean girls in school sitting in groups judging others and telling girls they don't know how to apply makeup.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories My father died in 2007 and left me and my sister $115k each. I used it to buy a new house.

I was 25 at the time. Didn't know s**t about the process to buy a home. So needless to say I bought something I couldn't afford. Then the market crashed in 2008. I lost the house and my inheritance.

I was more upset about blowing my fathers savings than losing the house. Lesson learned.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used my grandparent's 10k inheritance to cover me while I finished high school. It came at the right time, as I didn't have the inheritance when I started, and going back was a last minute decision. But the way my dad expected me to use it, investing in stocks and bonds, etc, I felt like I blown it in less than a year and never mentioned it again. But I think he knew.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Taking out a $5,000 loan to help my Mom with her very very past due bills.
Long story short, she ends up missing bills again and not learning her lesson.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made once a somehow alike mistake. I went low contact, but a few years later an emergency occured. My last thing doing for my "family" was paying for that emergency, but directly me. Never gave them money again, never contacted them again since than.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Losing my USB that had 50 Bitcoin on it. It was a prize for getting 2nd in a guitar hero contest hosted by the university I was attending.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Freshman year of college, I thought my final exam was at 11:30. It was at 9:30. The exam was 40% of my grade, so I failed. I lost my scholarship and had to pay to retake the class.

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Marriage to a narcissist. They always think they are right. I had a house and stock portfolio. We get asked to join in on a property investment. I was in love/gullible.
He was self-employed. I quit my job to be a SAHM which I don’t regret but there went that career and retirement plan. Then came the market crash and the business he ran suffered a huge hit. If I had $50 I would try to make it last a week to feed the kids and us. If he had $50 he’d buy steak. Once he made a pile of money but instead of paying down debt, he bought his kid a BMW. His ventures were always huge things; couldn’t handle being an employee… feast or famine but he controlled all the money. Divorce was long and drawn out and cost a lot. I had to drive the new expensive car that we could never afford until the divorce was final. In the meantime, the water pump failed and I had no choice but to fix it. Stupidest car choice ever. I feel like I got reset back into my 20’s financially, buying my first new to me car a year ago. Can’t afford a house because of the current market. Will never hand over financial decisions to anyone else ever again.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope you post this on reddit. A lot of women are falling for the "trad wife" scheme. (Traditional housewife)

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Tried messing with stocks out of boredom during Covid. Ended up getting into options and getting myself in a hole.

Instead of accepting my losses, I continued to make more risky investments, if you can even call them that. Ended up losing about $20k or so over the course of 8 months. I was engaged when I started getting into this and got married about halfway through and did all of this without my now wife’s knowledge.

We decided to start looking into buying a house and I had to come clean prior to applying for loans, so that I didn’t cause some long-lasting damage to us financially. It was a rough conversation and we ended up moving in with my in-laws as we try to recoup my losses and buy a house down the road.

Was definitely a tough stretch of life. Contemplated suicide and thought my marriage would be over before it even started. Thankfully, my wife had enough forgiveness to let me make things right. We both have good jobs and it wasn’t really a life-altering mistake when all things are considered. In therapy now to deal with the mental and marital issues that arise throughout the process.

I strongly advise anyone in a similar situation to cut your losses and have the difficult conversations sooner rather than later.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don't know what you're doing, the stock market is just a casino (and a lot of times even if you do know what you're doing).

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Bought a house 50/50 with my brother in law. I was in university full time and working part time. So not a lot of extra time to keep track of the house stuff. First year ends, find out the join house account is over drawn by $3000, because they hadn't been putting their share in the account. I pay that off, then the end of my second year... 3 leans against the title in his name.... over $45,000. Try to sell house for 2 years... no one will touch it, I have now taken out all loans I can to keep the house... bankruptcy, foreclose, lose over $250,000 dollars on what it was valued over what we had paid for it, not including the $15,000 down payment, and the $20,000 of reno's I paid for.

Life lesson learned: never go into anything financial with family.

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Agreeing to not having the septic tank inspected before closing on our home. It was pumped recently so it must be fine, right? Turns out it was actually in bad shape and needed to be fully replaced. Over $20,000.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Bachelor's in Anthropology, Minor in Music.

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Second marriage. She spent a LOT of money without my knowledge, including my retirement account.
I’m 64 and will be working until I die.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Got in a fight while on an exchange program, ended up awaiting trial in jail for a year before being released. All loans and scholarships were cancelled.

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Left my laptop on the front counter of my work while going into another room. We are in a major homeless area. Came back 15 minutes later and mine and the receptionists laptops were stolen.

Fairly decent laptop more than the actual equipment, lost 10 years of work- scripts and plays, databases, artwork, and hundreds upon hundreds of lesson plans.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I use Google drive for lessons. Too many teachers have had their USB break and had to recreate a term's worth of lessons.

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Rushed into buying a car. Bought a salvaged vehicle that looked like it was in great shape. It drove fine, and it was exactly what I needed at the time. About a month in some frame damage was discovered that made it hard to steer, and there were NO F*****G AIRBAGS! I tried to turn around and sell it once I found out, but I couldn’t in good conscience sell an unsafe vehicle to anyone. So I pay $7K to install new airbags and have a few other things done. Once the car was safe, I felt like I could stick with it a little longer…then the transmission started leaking. I had grown attached to the car by this time, so I figured I’d at least get an estimate on fixing the leak, even if it meant dropping the transmission. Mechanic gave me a call moments after I dropped it off to tell me he was worried that if he dropped the transmission he wouldn’t be able to put my car back together, because the repairs on the car were so bad the transmission was essentially holding the whole front end together!! Sold it for scrap and basically lost $15K total on that terrible purchase.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dear Pandas, don’t buy salvaged vehicles, or eat anything that is still on fire.

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When I started working in an operating theatre, I knelt down under a surgical microscope, promptly forgot my surroundings and then got up quickly and ungracefully. My back hit one of the handles, causing $10,000 worth of damage to a $500,000 piece of equipment. I was three weeks into my new job.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories I lent an ex $5,000. Never saw him or the money again!

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad's cousin's widow borrowed something like two grand. She paid back two hundred for like three months and then never contacted him again. Dad said it was the best two grand he ever spent.

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When I was like 10yo I tried to call a TV game (clearly a scam) a Bunch of times. My mom's phone bill came at around 200 bucks which was a lot for her at the time but she forgave me u_u worst thing is I was with my grandma and she kept encouraging me to call so we could win hahaha so adult supervision wasn't enough I guess.

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I made a one letter typo on one page of 18 export documents to Saudi Arabia. Container sat in port for two weeks before they told us they couldn’t clear because of the typo, and then I had to mail the amended documents to them because they don’t accept digital ones. Whole thing cost $8000.

It was my second week at the job and I never made a typo again.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My ex-GF worked at a mayor insurance company, of the ones that insured container ship fleets, oil rigs and pipe lines. She told me about one guy that made a single mistake with one point in an insurance form. It was a decimal point. Turns out the company paid an insurance for 100 million and this guy made it for 1 billion. The company was charged with tax evasion and the procedures nearly bankrupted it.

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My wedding. I wanted to get married by Elvis in Las Vegas just the two of us but my fiancé had visions of wearing white tie and tails. I was insecure and just went along with it and the entire evening was SO stressful and one of the worst nights of my life because I was so worried about what everyone thought and if they were having a good time. It’s been 23 years and I can’t bring myself to even look at pictures. We’re happily married now but the wedding was just a colossal waste of money.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Weddings are just deep fried ego on a stick.” - Ruprict the Bold.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Solar System. $20,000.
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Not doing more research into hiring a roofing contractor. Paid $13k for the shittiest job ever. Flashing messed up, rotten sheathing not replaced, nails blown clear through the singles, reusing shingles when they started running low, water running behind my siding, no flashing around my chimney, it was a s**t show. They didn't even cleanup, they left the old roof and nails strewn across my backyard and lawn. I pushed and pushed and next thing I know, he's disappeared and I have water running in my house. My insurance guy refused to help and I had to hire an honest roofer and redo the entire job for another $13k. The second guy cut me a break since he knew I was in a bad spot.

Last I heard, that guy was banned from doing work for a few insurance companies, but he changes his name and moves to another city of state often. He would take the money, hire random migrant crews but not give them enough for material (shingles, caulk, flashing) and demand the jobs all be done in 1 day.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These must be the guys slumlords use. I hate it when contractors don't clean up.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Forgot to turn in FASFA on time and lost out on $5,000 worth of grants.. had to end up taking loans out. Tough lesson but it taught me to pay attention to deadlines.

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Free Application for Federal Student Aid, and apparently it's a pain to fill out.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Unemployed in NYC for 3 months paying $4,000/month in rent.

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And it was a closet, above an indian restaurant, .living in constant curry-smell ...

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Toss up between my last marriage and the time I ran my boss’s $3.5 million yacht aground on a submerged sandbar on the Intracoastal Waterway south of Charleston, SC.

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I saved money for years and became doctor in my country (a poor one). Freshly graduated I came to the US thinking I could apply for more medical training and becoming doctor there too, but it requires to very expensive exams and courses. I ended up investing ~$45k in coming to the US, obtaining a visa, paying rents, paying courses, paying very difficult exams, doing clinical rotations, obtaining letters of recommendations. After 2 years of challenges I finally became elegible to apply, but the thing is, applying for medical training requires expensive fees to pay (capitalism! yeah!). 6 years passed I was never accepted into medical residency. Foreigners with visa cannot legally work in the US to cover expenses, which sucks a lot, and we have disadvantages to apply due to shortage of positions. I returned home after covid started.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doing some research, never hurts. Not doing it costs you a lot. Also, Hollywood made a great job selling the "american-dream", believeable just for poor fellas, like OP. I'm so sorry for him.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories My Amazon shopping addiction.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like putting stuff in my cart. I'll go back to it on payday. Most of the stuff I put in I don't want anymore or can't think of what I would use it for. Turns out, I really like to window shop more than spending money.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Going through nursing school just to drop out when I decided I no longer want that career.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We need more programs where kids can explore careers in high school - get to shadow someone or at least talk to people in the field they are interested in

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Paid for my first car with a $10k line of credit. Paid the line down to $5k and then moved out of my parents place. Because I paid down the $5k so quickly, the bank increased my limit to $20k and over the next 5 years I maxed that s**t out. It’s been closed for three years and I still have $15k to pay back.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made a similar mistake recently, but on a much smaller scale. My line of credit was 3K. I maxed it out but would keep up with the regular payments. I was then approved for a $500 extra limit. I maxed that out. It's not like my life is that expensive. I pay my bills and everything. But food is double to triple the cost at the stores that I'm stuck borrowing just to feed us.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories Selling my last house - I invested more into it than I got out of it profit-wise when I sold it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reasons why you need to think about whether or not some changes are worth the money

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Six months ago I moved across the country for a job that wasn’t as advertised and now I’m moving again. I don’t know if I can call that a mistake though, unless trusting any employer to be honest about a job is a mistake.

As far as pure mistakes, probably knocking over a glass of water and ruining a brand new expensive laptop. It even damaged the hard drive controller and I lost basically all of my writing from my undergrad days.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It should be illegal to misrepresent a job that you're hiring for. It's certainly not acceptable to lie on your application. Actually, it may be for all I know.

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Back in June I went to Africa for charity work and got sick drinking from a private well. I've been in hospitals for four months now and because most of that time my health insurance didn't cover me outside of the country I owe the government $170,000 for covering my hospital stays in the Congo and Kenya.

I can't leave the United states until I pay it off, but I'm already disabled from a car wreck a decade ago. I don't know what I'm going to do.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always take out travel insurance and read the small print so you know what is and isn't covered. Every year, here in the UK, there are stories in the media about people setting up a GoFundMe because they got sick, or had a serious accident abroad and they can't afford the medical bills and repatriation. If you have preexisting conditions, get specialist travel insurance so everything is covered.

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“What Is Your Most Expensive Mistake?”: 45 People Share Their Stories I thought the US stock market would continue to plummet during the pandemic. But I was dead wrong and I lost a tremendous amount of money.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I do not trust investing in stocks. I learned in Grade 12 math about stocks and bonds. They're very high risk investments. Invest only as much as you can sleep on.

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My parents have horrible horrible credit score and got scammed at a car dealership to buy a rebuilt truck $8000 over kbb value at a 18% interest rate.

Me. Wanting to be a good son co-signed on a brand new 2019 Chevy Silverado. Got them a 0% interest rate and put $5000 of my own money down to so that for them. With the promise they would pay it back.

3 years later they were more than 45 days on more than 20 payments. I’m now ready to put down another $5000 to force them to refinance it so I can have a future.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just flush your money down a toilet, it will all be over a lot faster.

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Invested in a brewery. Turns out these guys made great beers but were completely useless at running a business. They’re still operating but are going downhill fast, and my investment is going down with them. There’s absolutely no way I’ll get any of my money back.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe investors should do more to help the businesses, especially if the business owners are struggling to figure out what needs to be done, rather than just throwing money at them and watching them drown, then lamenting how much money is lost.

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I was on my honeymoon in Italy and had reserved and pre-paid for a rental car up front. When we arrived at the rental booth, everything was in order. The car was ready; all I needed to do was insert my credit card and enter the pin. That's when I realized I didn't know the pin code for my credit card. We were able to rent a car in the end with another agency, but by not remembering four measly numbers, we lost almost 900 euros.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is becoming a common problem as people have gotten reliant on tapping instead of inserting the card. Been seeing the issue at the grocery store. Saw one lady call her husband asking what her pin is lol. I guess they have a highly trusting relationship or use a joint account.

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I answered honestly during a medical evaluation when I could have easily just checked no next to everything on the form and now I'm at risk of not being able to get the career I desire because of it. Even if I somehow do manage to avoid being completely denied, it still will have cost me thousands of dollars in psychological testing.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But what was the reason for the medical evaluation? Military? Don't the evaluations have a purpose and answering dishonestly could bite you in the a**e later?

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I didn't know how to use my direct investing feature on my bank. I was looking to invest a few thousand dollars in Apple stock back in 2015. The 24/7 guy who answered the broker line could've placed the trade for me but said I'd pay less fees if I did it myself online. I said no that's fine, I don't know how to use the website, please place the trade.

He said he'd have to charge a small commission. I said that's fine! But he kept saying no no you'll pay too much and encouraged me to figure out how to do it online.

I couldn't figure it out.

Is worth like 500% of what I would've bought it for.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the norm now. It's easier and cheaper to do it online and agents seem to be there, now, just to redirect customers to websites and apps.

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I bought an old overpriced Ford Bronco. That thing hated me with passion. Each time I would try to drive it, it didn’t want too or worked for 10 minutes and then pretended to die. I think he had something against Women because all the Men who tried said it worked like a charm.

Sold it for half I paid for. I hope it’s rusting in a field somewhere.

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Buying a $130K Tesla. So not worth it. May sell it in today's inflated used car market and just get a Prius.

Second biggest? Buying some magic mushroom stock on the first day it went public. I'm bagholding and about $15K in the red.

For everything else, I have a midas touch.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

$130k for a stupid car??!! That's literally half the price I paid for my whole house and property lol! ***Edited to add that my trusty truck I've driven for almost a decade now was bought from a wrecking yard for $750 😂😂😂 and it's never had any problems. Don't buy into consumerism, y'all!!

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